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Language activity. 1. Answer the questions. 2. Read and match English and Russian equivalents. 3. match the beginning of the sentences with the ends.
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LANGUAGE ACTIVITY
1. Answer the questions.
1. Why do people like dreaming?
2. Where do you live now? Where would you like to live?
3. How many rooms are there in your flat/ house?
4. What is there in your living room?
5. Where do you usually like to relax in the place you live in?
6. Do you feel comfortable in you flat/house?
7. What makes our life more comfortable?
2. Read and match English and Russian equivalents.
| East or west home is best. | Кот из дома – мыши в пляс (пословица). |
| Men make houses, but women make homes. | В гостях хорошо, а дома лучше (пословица). |
| Home is where the heart is. | Мужчина строит дом, а женщина делает его родным очагом (Фрост). |
| When the cat is away, the mice will play. | Дом – это там, где твоё сердце (Плиний Старший). |
3. Match the beginning of the sentences with the ends.
| 1. You relax and watch TV 2. You cook 3. You eat your dinner 4. You sleep 5. You have a shower 6. You put up guests | a. in the bathroom b. in your bedroom c. in the living room / lounge d. in the dining room e. in the spare room f. in the kitchen |
4. Fill the gaps in the text with the words: tenants, deposit, furnished, advance, landlord, share.
When I was a student, I decided to (1) … a flat with a couple of good friends. We didn’t have any stuff of our own, so we tried to find a nice (2) … flat. We soon found somewhere that we all liked and we decided to take it.
We had to pay a (3) … of £ 500 and one month’s rent in (4) … – a total of £ 1, 000. We were lucky because the previous (5) … had left the place really clean and tidy, so we moved in the next day.
Our (6) … said we could paint the rooms if we wanted to, so I painted mine bright red!
5. Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
| Semi-detached house | This type of accommodation is suitable mostly for single men and women. The person who lives in this furnished room (the tenant) will pay rent to the owner (the landlord). |
| Detached house | This type of house has land all around it and is the most expensive type of home. It has privacy from neighbours and is ideal for keen gardeners who have plenty of time to work in the garden. |
| Bungalow | Many people dream to buy it by the sea when they retire. All the rooms in this kind of house are on the ground floor, so it is a particularly suitable type of home for older people. |
| Terrace house | Houses of this type are attached to one another on both sides, in a long row. They may be three or four storeys high and have spacious rooms. There are miles of these older houses in most British towns. |
| Block of flats | Dwellings of this type usually rise up eighteen or twenty storeys high along the sky-line of cities like London and Birmingham. They were built in the 1950s and 1960s to provide most accommodation using the least amount of land. |
| Manor | This is a beautiful old country house with large gardens. One must be rich to maintain this kind of property. |
| Bedsitter | This type of house is built as one of a pair of houses which share a central wall. This saves land because they do not have gardens all around. The house usually have a small garden at the front and a larger garden at the back and perhaps a garage at the side. |
6. Finish the sentences using the given variants.
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1. I live in Polevaya street in
a) a 16-storeyed building.
b) a private house.
c) a 9-storeyed block of flats.
2. What makes my room interesting is
a) my air fleet of model planes.
b) my collection of badges.
c) a picture I have painted.
3. My mother keeps all the things
a) my father brought from his journeys,
b) she has made herself.
c) I and my sister made ourselves.
4. To make a long story short, I must Say
a) East or West, home is best.
b) every bird likes its own nest best.
c) there is no place like home.
7. Put the sentences in logical order to form a story.
1. Our apartment has all modern conveniences: central heating, running cold and hot water, electricity, telephone and Internet, gas and central air-condition.
2. It is a three-bedroom apartment on the ninth floor of the nine-storied building.
3. The most popular and favorite place with all of us is the kitchen where we can have a chat about our problems and life.
4. Our family lives in a new apartment in one of the largest newly built residential areas.
5. The rooms in our apartment are light, though not very large. But the windows face the park with the waterfront and this view is really amazing.
6. Our living-room is the largest room in our apartment. We like to receive our guests in this room.
7. Our bedrooms are smaller than a living-room.
8. It consists of a living-room, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a cabinet and two balconies.
9. We like our apartment very much.
10. To begin with, I live in the City, it’s one of the largest and oldest cities of Europe.
8. Speak on one of the following topics.
1. Your flat.
2. Your room.
3. Prove that there is no place like home.
CONVERSATION PRACTICE
1. Read and translate the dialogue.
Renting a Flat
Roger: Hello.
Ann: Hello Roger? This is Ann.
Roger: Oh hi, Ann. How have you been? And how’s your new apartment working out?
Ann: Well, that’s what I’m calling about. You see, I’ve decided to look for a new place.
Roger: Oh, what’s the problem with your place now? I thought you liked the apartment.
Ann: Oh, I do, but it’s a little far from campus, and the commute
(ездить каждый день на значительное расстояние) is just killing me. Do you think you could help? I thought you might know more about the housing situation near the academy.
Roger: Okay, what’s your budget like? I mean how much do you want to spend on rent?
Ann: Uh, somewhere under $200 a month, including utilities, if I could. Oh, and I’d prefer to rent a furnished apartment.
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Roger: Hmm. And anything else?
Ann: Yeah, I need a parking space.
Roger: Well, I know there’s an apartment complex around the corner that seems to have a few vacancies. I’ll drop by there on my way to class today.
Ann: Hey, thanks a lot.
Roger: No problem.
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